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… and does not allow us to go back beyond the figure 3000 I see no other choice except for us on the Egypt. side to accommodate ourselves to that figure. So long as no compelling chronological grounds for the contrary appear we shall not need to go further back than 3000 BC for the date of Menes. If we now as a pure supposition, allow the 4th mill. for the spread of the second civilisation in Upper E. & the 5th for the development and bloom of the 1st, including perhaps Badari & Fayyum, we should get a date of about 5000 for the dividing line between this & the immediately preceding Capsian culture of Egypt. & N. A. (see p. 266), which according to Schuchhardt (Alteuropa, 2nd ed. 1926, 34) corresponds to the end of the post glacial period in Europe (Tardenois.- Maglemosian).
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